Sarah Ioannides | |
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| Born | 2 April 1972 Canberra, Australia |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Conductor |
| Instrument(s) | Violin, Piano, French Horn |
| Website | www.sarahioannidesmusic.com |
Sarah Ioannides (born 1972, [1] Canberra) is a British conductor, collaborator, and multimedia producer living in the United States. She is currently the music director of Symphony Tacoma, the founding artistic director of Cascade Conducting and Composing, and the resident conductor of the NYO-USA.
Ioannides was born in Canberra, Australia, and grew up in England, where she was educated at Cranleigh School. [2] Her father, Ayis Ioannides, is a conductor and composer of Greek Cypriot ancestry [3] Her mother, Gwyneth Woollard, is of Scottish ancestry, studying violin, piano, and French horn from an early age, she entered Oxford University on an instrumental scholarship, earning a Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Music degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She completed a Diploma in Conducting at the Curtis Institute of Music on a Fulbright scholarship and studied in St. Petersburg on a Presser Foundation Scholarship. She earned a Master of Music in Conducting from the Juilliard School, where she was assistant conductor to Otto-Werner Mueller.
While at Oxford, Ioannides took her first position as Music Director at the age of 19 with the Oxford Philharmonia and Music Director of Oxford University Opera, leading the European premiere of Stephen Paulus's The Woodlanders. Serving as assistant conductor and productor coordinator to Tan Dun from 1999 to 2003, Ioannides was responsible for orchestra preparation, directing choirs, and coordinating productions on international tours with him. From 2002 to 2004, she was assistant conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra.
From 2005 to 2011, Ioannides was music director of the El Paso Symphony Orchestra. During her tenure, she expanded the contemporary repertoire of the orchestra and directed and commissioned films for live orchestral multimedia performances. Ioannides also became music director of the Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra in 2005, serving in that position until 2017. [4] [5] During her time there, she focused on expanding the orchestra's partnerships with local school and arts organizations, School of the Deaf and the Blind, Ballet Spartanburg, and Spartanburg Day School, and launched a new chamber music series featuring the orchestra's principal players as well as co-commissioning a new percussion concerto by Australian composer Sean O'Boyle for Evelyn Glennie.
In 2014, Symphony Tacoma announced the appointment of Ioannides as its next music director, with an initial contract of 5 years that was later extended through the 2023–2024 season. [6] She has expanded Symphony Tacoma's repertoire with more diverse composers and guest artists and led new artistic and educational endeavors in the community. During the 2020–21 season, Ioannides developed extensive digital content, including the production of Symphony Tacoma's Encore Series, a curated selection of online performances founded on work from her previous six seasons with the orchestra.
In 2018, Ioannides became the founding artistic director of the Cascade Conducting Institute, a week-long international masterclass held in partnership with Symphony Tacoma. Since 2016, she has coached conductors and led new music performances for the Curtis Institute of Music.
Ioannides has conducted orchestras, festivals, and operas around the world, including Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonkünstler, Orchestre National de Lyon , Daejeon Philharmonic, Metamorphosis Festival, Perth Festival, National Symphony of Colombia, Cincinnati, and Seattle Symphony.
Ioannides is an advocate for new music, with a particular focus on collaborative projects and multimedia projects. She has conducted over forty world premieres, including works by Stephen Paulus, Marie Samuelsson, Hannah Lash, Richard Danielpour, Dario Marianelli, and Claudio Constantini. [7]
In her work with orchestras around the world, she is a spokesperson for more diverse composers and guest artists, as well as supporting emerging women and minority conductors in her role as coach and mentor. Ioannides's work is also marked by her collaborations beyond the music industry. A notable example of such cross-sector projects is "Fire Mountain" (2017), a collaboration with the National Parks Association, Tacoma's Museum of Glass, and Hilltop Artists. [8] The piece was first presented in a double premiere with music by Daniel Ott and film by Derek Klein.
In 2016, Ioannides produced a new multimedia art film to accompany Milhaud's Creation du Monde, directed by Brad McCombs, using artworks selected from the Cincinnati Art Museum, international collections, and Ioannides' own paintings. This film was also shown at Cincinnati's Summermusik Festival.
Ioannides's first commercial recording was released in 2008. She conducted violinist Lara St. John and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in works by John Corigliano, Matthew Hindson, and Franz Liszt. [9] In 2019, she recorded works by Marie Samuelsson, including the Love Trilogy and Airborne Lines and Rumbles, with the Malmö Symphony and Nordic Chamber Orchestra.
As part of the 2021 Cascade Conducting program, Ioannides enabled six composers in the Pacific Northwest to have their works performed and recorded by Symphony Tacoma musicians and conducted by young international conductors.
Ioannides and her work have been recognized through a multitude of honors and awards, including:
Ioannides has been married to Scott Hartman, a trombonist and professor at Yale University, since 2005. [10] They have three children: a daughter, Audrey, and twins, Elsa and Karl, born in 2008 and 2010. The family spent a decade splitting their time between three states while Ioannides was music director of the El Paso Symphony, Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra, and Symphony Tacoma. [11] Ioannides is a distance runner and has run several half marathons. [12] Ioannides is a descendant of the Maltese family and the eighth generation of violinists, composers, and conductors, which includes composer Antonio Nani.
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